Improvement in wheels tor vehicles



J. D. ROSS.

Vehicle Wheel.

Patented June 14, 1870.

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Letters Patent No. 104,208, (Ritalin-71614, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN W HEELS FOR VEHICLES.

The Schedule referred to in'these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J QHN D. Ross, of Truckee, county of Nevada, State of California, have invented an- Improved W'heel for Vehicles; and I do hereby declare the following description and accompanying drawing are sufficient-to enable any person skilled in the art orscience to which it most nearly appertains,

- to make and use my said invention and improvements without further invention or experiment.

7 all being fastened to it by light clips.

Referring to the accompanying drawing for a more complete description of my invention- A is the hub of the wheel, and

B, the felly.

The spokes G D are placed alternately to one side and the other of a line around the center of the hub, as shown, and may be set so asto leave the telly exactly over the center, or, as is preferable, so that the wheel will be slightly dishing, thus allowing the spokes to get a straight hearing, when the axle is set to run well.

In this case, the spokes Q and D are set widely apart in the hub; but, in a large wheel, one and a half inch will be sufficient to admit the arch or rim E.

This is placed at a point midway between the hub and the folly, and lies between the spokes G and D, touching each, and appearing, as it were, alternately before and behind a'spoke, when seen from the side.

This arch is fastened to each spoke by a light clip of iron, and serves to transmit any strain through all the spokes, thus relieving the hub, so that, if kept screwed up tight, even if the spokes should become loose in the hub, the tire would not be loosened, as the arch acts as a secondary hub, which always maintains its full size. v

The wheel is also very greatly strengthened, and made capable of resisting side strains, and is thus es pecially adapted to racing or trotting-wagons or. sulkies, as it can never break down or twist the spokes out of the hub, and admits ,the use of a high wheel. If a very high wheel is to be used, two arches .may

be employed, but one will besuflicient for all ordinary wheels.

Racing thus described my invention, -\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is-

Constructing a wheel for vehicles witlra secondary arch or rim, when placed between'and attached to the' VVit-nesses JAMEs CANAYAX, A. M. WALKER. 

